Varaprasad Buvvadi

ADGM new branch establishment:

• Abu Dhabi Global Market is an international financial center strategically located in the capital of the United Arab Emirates
• ADGM clients achieve their dollar business using FAB’s solution by following the FSRA regulations.
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• Requirement gathering across all multiple units in the bank
• Approaching FSRA team and query resolutions raised by all business units inducing legal & compliance
• Carry out the end-end project Planning, Design, Execution & Closure for all Business & Product activities with collaboration with Group IT, PMO & Vendors
• Testing activities of SIT & UAT execution and production rollouts with the team. Results walkthrough to all impacted stakeholders.

Implementation of Egypt - First Abu Dhabi Bank & Bank Audi

• First Abu Dhabi Bank is acquiring Bank Audi Egypt which is in line with the group’s strategy to pursue further growth opportunities in markets
• A part of acquisition, system integration & data migration in place for all the bank customers

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Creation of initial roadmap/milestone plan for the for Project implementation of Corporate products
• Involved & Monitor all activities functional GAP’s assessment of both entities of the each products
• Handled Data migration of runs (Mock to Dress Rehearsals)
• Fulfilling requirements of Central Bank of Egypt with respect harmonization of FI
• Oversaw the activities of Customer /Bank communications and Cutover activities of Customer readiness day

SWIFT GPI implementation in FAB

• SWIFT GPI (Global Payments Innovation) is an initiative from SWIFT to improve the experience of customer payment status and Tracking end – end
• Implementation has taken place in all three stage of Instructed, Intermediary and Instructed
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• Handling project end-end from vendor workshops to Delivery
• Planed to Implement entire FAB group for the first stage for all 3 stages
• Provided enhanced services to customers through Digital channels for payment tracking

Integration and Data Migration FGB - NBAD Channels & Interfaces for Global client access:

• As part of the Integration of FGB (First Gulf Bank) & NBAD (National Bank of Abu Dhabi) to establish FAB (First Abu Dhabi Bank), played a major role from the Initiation to Go live activities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Partnering with all key stakeholders, Credit administration, Business Management, Operations, Group Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit and Process engineering teams to provide solutions on migration issues in the Cash management unit.
• Providing technical expertise on Core Banking systems T24 & Intellect in the areas of Data mapping & Profiling, Data validations, Transformation Logics (Automated & Manual) and Reports verification.
• Direct and deal with the Integration Business Process throughout its life cycle initiation, planning, execution, Monitoring & Controlling and closure related to CIB activities under GTB.
• Managing Data migration tasks by involving different phases of runs from DR-1 to DR-6 by using ICEFLOW tool for monitoring and timely tracking.
• Managing Cut Over activities during the migration runs and conducting ORT (Operation readiness Testing) as per UAE central Bank mandate.
• Conducting conferences among Business stakeholders on the stages status of migration runs and highlight concerns/challenges to Business heads.
• Quality assessment of Source and Target data sets and its field validations by providing guidance to team members.
• Conducting meeting with IT teams on pending deliverables and Transformation Logics status to start with next runs after completion of previous DR.
• Organize and generating the communication letters to corporate customers by using Target and source customer/account details.
• Identified the impact of customer facing channels and plan for any channel upgrades/patch installation
• Arranging the meetings with Process re-engineering teams to develop a process flow and preparation of SOP (Standard operating process) for Business users reference post Customer Day1.
• Post customer day1, supporting to Business units, Client Service on BAU queries related integration and Non-Integration data.

Projects: RCD, EPM, SFTP, FABOnline, iBanking, SWFIT upgrades, SWIFT gpi, ICCS, UAEFTS, WPS, Mobile app, Statements, Liquidity management

As part of the improvement of Bank-Customer relationship and the enhancement of commercial effectiveness, increasing cross selling capacity such as Digital Banking, Mobile Banking or ATMs are become the preferential platform for the customer’s easy access.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Created master schedules for each project, based on the statement of work that was agreed during client requirements workshops.
• Presenting daily and weekly outlooks to make sure that the development status of pending deliverables and Business were meeting agreed upon mile stones with the client.
• Monitoring project risks and scope to identify potential problems and proactively make out solutions to address them in advance.
• Conducting and monitoring UAT cycles based on the complexity of the project in the areas of resource planning, effort estimation, Preparing test suites, BVT plans and Production roll outs.
• Managing the projects from the Requirements phase to Production movements by obtaining the sign off from Business Stakeholders, Operation Team and SMEs.
• Track issues, risks, action items and other pertinent project related items and escalate appropriately to ensure project stays on track.
• Conducting quality and safety checks in the field

• Reproduced defects and documented findings.
• Completed regression tests of new software builds to assess performance and success of bug fixes.
• Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and testing software.
• Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies.

• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Developed web applications for deployment on platforms and sites.
• Reported on updates to project specifications and progress.
• Designed custom dashboards and reporting interfaces.